Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] weeks to " in BNC.
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1 | Bemrose Corp pre-tax profit for 53 weeks to January 2 was £6.3m ( £5.1m ) . |
2 | Shirley , who books his races , keeps his times , files his cuttings , went to Melbourne for six weeks to her sister 's , and he was lost without her . |
3 | The second point is that I 've , the Americans I , I , it 's one of the promises about street life in second from the bottom , two weeks in the winter , four weeks in the summer , well I know to my cost erm through my ear being blasted which is why you 're a County Councillor anyway , that it 's been six weeks at the present time , we 've had a lot of lights going down , okay we 're trying to improve it , we had people walking into cars , er , er a few burglaries which I 'm pleased to say the police have helped out in , but if we 're going to change and get it down from a level of six weeks to two weeks as it is in the area I represent , is that not a question of putting extra resources in it and there 's no good putting promises unless we can deliver . |
4 | The donation was similar to unemployment benefit and from November 1918 was available for periods up to a maximum of thirteen weeks to all the unemployed covered by the 1911 insurance scheme , to ex-servicemen , civilians , insured and non-insured alike . |
5 | Do this exercise three times and then increasing over a period of three weeks to six times . |
6 | Last year 's summer play scheme was the first in the Dyfi Valley and attracted more than 800 children over a period of four weeks to Ysgol Bro Ddyfi . |
7 | Then Guy told Leonora he was going away for three weeks to Wales , to take photographs for a travel book , and suggested she went with him . |
8 | The new computerised processes have meant that the lead time in certain product areas has been shortened dramatically from eight weeks to 42 h . |
9 | After redesigning from scratch the way it processed orders from customers , it has cut delivery times from 8-12 weeks to ‘ days ’ even while using 35% fewer people to do the job . |
10 | • You can learn to fly in 2 weeks to the required standard to obtain your British Private Pilots Licence . |
11 | As I say , the malais had this habit of letting people go home , then pulling them in six weeks to six months later . |
12 | The " marker " price of North Sea Brent crude , which had already risen by 60 per cent in six weeks to $24 per barrel on Aug. 3 , passed $30 per barrel on Aug. 22 , with production down by the 4,000,000 barrels per day of lost Iraqi and Saudi production . |
13 | A well-equipped nursery playgroup caters for children aged from six weeks to five years . |
14 | A well-equipped nursery playgroup caters for children aged from six weeks to five years . |
15 | Using workflow , one hardware manufacturer managed to cut the time taken to process an invoice from six weeks to three days . |
16 | Another 15-year-old youth , arrested for an entirely separate offence — pushing people off the pavement — was also subsequently charged , and the upshot was that five youths ( including one 15-year-old girl ) received prison sentences ranging from three weeks to six months . |
17 | To increase from three weeks to six weeks , and I believe it 's important to respond to district and borough councils when we 're trying to co-operate with them . |
18 | The number of patients waiting at the end of last year rose to 990 and the average waiting time had risen from 35 weeks to more than a year . |
19 | The number of patients waiting at the end of last year rose to 990 and the average waiting time had risen from 35 weeks to more than a year . |
20 | It has also cut manufacturing lead times from 17 weeks to two and trebled output per operator . |
21 | The nursery is situated at 79 and 81 Dalkeith Road and is registered for 18 children aged from 6 weeks to 2 years and for 30 children aged from 2 to 5 years old . |
22 | There was also a highly significant reduction in CCPRs at all sites from 16 weeks to 32 weeks ( p<0.001 ) upon which the above changes were superimposed . |
23 | She managed to reduce her weight by 1 st 2 lbs ( 7.2 kg ) in 9 weeks to a delightfully slim 8 st 5 lbs ( 53.2 kg ) for her 5 ft 5 ins ( 1.65 m ) height . |
24 | And Opposition MPs could not conceal their scorn when he compared his life in recent weeks to that of a victim of Ceaucescu 's Romania . |
25 | Among them , the 809 tenants owe Shetland Islands Council almost £210,000 , with arrears ranging from four weeks to more than one year . |
26 | Treatment had been given for periods ranging from two weeks to over 10 years . |
27 | The sections could take from two weeks to half a term to complete , so the actual number of tests varied from scheme to scheme . |
28 | We 've asked three mums , with babies aged from two weeks to five months , to give the slings and changing bags a star rating from one to five . |
29 | Assignments can last from two weeks to six months . |
30 | As this means that the application will now be submitted in two weeks to the Scottish Office , urgent contact will be made by your sponsor Dept to confirm that costings and other information is accurate for submission . |